Review of Homeless Joshi ***gakusei
| Subject | Homeless Joshi ***gakusei Homeless School Girl |
| By | Vote: 2psm3l0 on 2021-07-25 |
| Review | I must begin my review by saying that, having Saya no Uta as one of my favorite visual novels, I believe that violence and sex can be used for artistic purposes or to discuss a theme. Homeless School Girl, however, isn't one of these cases. There isn't any plot. A girl, who we don't even know her name, runs from her rapist stepfather and starts living in the streets. Then she's raped again. And again. And again. And again. And again. Conveniently, despite starving, she doesn't appear to suffer from malnutrition and has a flawless body. She also seems to be always perfectly clean and, despite being raped without protection from countless men, she never gets pregnant or acquires an STD. So, let's be honest, the reality isn't the focus here. This isn't a documentary story about a harsh reality. It's not trying to discuss a social issue. What it does is use cheap emotional manipulation and shocking images only for the sake of being shocking. There isn't any message or even a purpose in being shocking. The story actually says absolutely nothing. It's just a series of scenes that gets quickly boring and predictable. Actually, there's one purpose in all this stuff: fetish. I know many people may think that definitively, in no way, someone would feel aroused by this, but... Yes, there's. There're numerous ways to portrait a naked body and a sexual abuse act. However, the artist chooses to always draw them in an erotic style, putting her naked, flawless, and fragile body on the center of the screen while violent and dangerous men point their erect penises to her as weapons. Even if you felt too sad to be horny, it doesn't change the fact that this is a visual novel that offers only sexual images to dark fetishes. And, yes, that means that this is a nukige. I also read many people complimenting the writing as being "poetic" or "deep", but it only uses cheap tricks to sound like it. Repeating sentences doesn't make them deep. Repeating sentences doesn't make them prettier. Repeating sentences doesn't make them sound as if it's high literature. The writing is also pretty weak. The dialogues are terrible and could be taken from any cheap and creepy porn. The girl also seems unable to form any complex sentences, always having straightforward thoughts. It is almost childlike as if her mind was so broken that she started regressing her language knowledge. Or it may be poor writing skills aiming. Probably. The only good thing is the text presentation. It doesn't stay stuck on a window but appears in different spots on the screen. The text position seems to express things as the girl's emotions, or the desire of her rapists. It was very creative and reminded me of works of concrete poetry. And this was the only reason that I didn't give a 1 score. Such a shame that it was wasted on such edgy and shallow work. |